VMware
Broadcom Locking VMware Updates to Require Download Token for Site ID
Well, more tightening with VMware by Broadcom. Broadcom has announced major changes to the way VIAdmins are getting updates in their environments. …
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Articles
Big Spring Home Lab Sale: Beats Pro, Mini PCs, 10 gig Network Switches, NVMe, Monitors, and more!
In case you haven’t heard, Amazon is having their Big Spring Sale starting today that is seeing huge discounts across the board for many of the ite…
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Articles
Minisforum BD795i SE Motherboard Review for Home Lab
Minisforum is a name that is synonymous with home labs. They have one of the best mini PCs available for home lab use in the Minisforum MS-01 mini …
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Articles
Home Lab Hardware I’m Most Excited About in 2025
As we are now near to the last month in the first quarter of 2025, there are many developments that I am excited about when it comes to home lab ha…
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Articles
AMD Ryzen 9 7945HX BIOS Settings: Power Consumption and Bifurcation
I have recently put together a Proxmox Home Lab Server build for 2025 and as the core of the build, I used the Minisforum BD795M motherboard. This …
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Articles
Core Performance Boost Setting: Speed vs Power Consumption in Home Lab
I have built up a couple of Ryzen 9 7945HX home server builds over the past few weeks and have experimented a bit with the BIOS settings and things t…
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Articles
Monitor Proxmox with CheckMK Open Source Monitoring
Many are utilizing Proxmox VE Server in their home labs. Proxmox is a great option for running virtual machines and containers and self-hosting. Yo…
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Windows Server
DNS Failover for the Home Lab and Why You Need It
We have all heard the very common expression, “it is always DNS”. We joke about this often, but very often DNS is at the heart of issues with conne…
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Articles
Proxmox Swap Tweaks Guide! Dedicated drive, Swappiness, Page Cluster
I have been doing quite a bit of testing with Proxmox swap and Intel Optane drives for ultra fast swap storage. In doing so have learned quite a bi…
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Articles
Best Terminal for DevOps Just Landed!
Just yesterday at the time of this writing, Warp terminal for Windows was released, rounding out support for all the major OS’es, including macOS a…
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Windows Server
Home Server Build 2025: Run Proxmox or VMware ESXi 16 Cores and 128GB RAM
I have been having fun building Proxmox servers with motherboards from Minisforum. I hadn’t really considered getting back into building servers as…
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